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Transmitting the crisis that Frederick Jackson Turner and Theodore Roosevelt feared when the frontier closed, the Western has returned to reveal a cultural watershed at work in twenty-first century America, revitalized with horror, terror and the peccant. Darkened and dystopic, contemporary Westerns point to a national bankruptcy, upending the notion that regenerative, civilizing impulses direct nation-building. Exploring films like Open Range (2003), Yah?i Bat? (2010), The Keeping Room (2015), Little Woods (2018), and First Cow (2019), as well as television series like Justified (2010-1015), Longmire (2012-2017), Westworld (2016-2022), and Yellowstone (2020 ), this thought-provoking collection examines re-constituted masculinities, feminine re-fashioning and new directions in Western filmmaking. Covering a wide range of aesthetic and thematic concerns, Return of the Western: Refracting Genre, Representing Gender in the Twenty-First Century reminds us how deeply this versatile genre is grounded in the American psyche.
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Introduction: Rethinking the American frontier—Frederick Jackson Turner, Neurasthenia, and the Contemporary Western - Sue Matheson
1. "Free to be not important:" Variety and Versatility in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018) - Stella Hockenhull
PART ONE RE-CONSTITUTED—CONTEMPORARY COWBOYS
2. "I've Grown Old:" Star Embodiment and Aging Masculinity in the Westerns of Kevin Costner and Jeff Bridges - Gaylyn Studlar
3. Jesse James: Melancholy Aesthetics at the End of Cowboy Politics - Christopher Minz
4. "Next one's comin' faster:" The Vigilante Lawman in FX's Justified (FX, 2010-15) - Brian Brems
5. "I aim to show that he's a man like any other:" Demythologizing Frontier Masculinity in The Proposition (2005) - Christopher J. Olson
6. Lords of the Plains: The Conemporary Western and Discourse in Hell or High Water (2016) - Kelly MacPhail
7. Baking Soda Buddies: Frontier Friendship/Capitalist Critique in Kelly Reichardt's First Cow - Sue Matheson
PART TWO RE-FASHIONED—21ST-CENTURY FRONTIERSWOMEN
8. Deviations from type: the female gaze in a Frontier setting in Ron Howard's The Missing (2003) - Anne-Marie Paquet-Deyris
9. Sexual Terrorism, Gender, and Race in The Keeping Room (2014): Revisioning the Revenge Western
Fran Pheasant-Kelly
10. Subverting Classic Western Codes and Women's Empowerment in Meek's Cutoff (2010) - Gilles Menegaldo
11. Doing What Westerns Do: Nia DaCosta's Little Woods (2018) and the Representation of the "New West" - Erin Lee Mock
12. Screening Femininities in Deadwood (HBO, 2004-6) - Claire Dutriaux
PART III. RE-FORMED— THE 21ST-CENTURY FRONTIER
13. The (Un)Making of Civilization in the post-2000 Western - Martin Holtz
14. The Land and its Relationship to Justice in Longmire (A&E, 2012-14; Netflix, 2015 - 17) - Andrew Howe
15. A "Safe Place": The Western "Home" and its Mutation in Logan (2017) - J. Paul Johnson
16. "We have always been posthuman:" Towards Post-Anthropocentric Perspectives in Westworld (HBO, 2016-22) - Katarzyna Nowak-McNiece
17. Revelations in the Old West - Cynthia J. Miller
18. Postcolonial Discourses of "Hobbyism," Cultural Appropriation, and Historical Memory in Global Transnational Westerns - Khani Begum
19. Westerns in Turkey and the Contemporary Turco-Western: Genre, Gender, and Transnationality in Yahşi Batı (2010) - İlyas Deniz Çınar
20. The Western Rides into the Twenty-First Century: A Bibliography - Camille McCutcheon
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